Good riddance to arguably the worst starting quarterback in Buccaneers history.

Sorry. Josh McCown is a nice guy, but this is football. Unlike McCown, Joe’s not shedding a tear tonight. [read more]

Starting quarterback Josh McCown was released this afternoon by the Bucs.

The Bucs have released starting quarterback Josh McCown.

In a stunning move, the Bucs waved goodbye to turnover-prone Josh McCown today, the club announced this afternoon. Joe will let Buccaneers.com editor Scott Smith offer the details. [read more]

The Bucs became so painful to watch last year, even if Joe was working the game, he was tested. It was bad football, which is expected from a 2-14 team.

Joe can only imagine how awful it was for fans seeking enjoyment. [read more]

No. 78 likely will be on the market when the free agency dinner bell rings in 27 days

Joe’s not in the fairy dust crowd that believes magic dust and fresh air will transform the play of Evan Dietrich-Smith, Logan Mankins and Anthony Collins, and make Demar Doston a good starting NFL left tackle. [read more]

It’s the time of year when hot NFL prospects pay big bucks for private coaching and head to places like IMG Academy in Bradenton to spend every waking hour tuning up their bodies. [read more]

Could Lovie Smith get fired after the 2015 season?

Lots of Bucs fans and analysts think the answer to that question is, “Absolutely.” [read more]

The popular belief of how Team Glazer and the Bucs handle the draft is that Team Glazer simply delegates authority to employees and trusts them to run the draft. And if everything goes as the football operations plans, then Team Glazer toasts the weekend’s efforts with a glass of champagne and begins worrying about training camp. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

Rick Stroud paints a different picture of the feelings inside One Buc Palace

Yesterday, Bucs fans were sent into a full-blown panic when the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, suggested there is rancor within the walls of One Buc Palace regarding what to do with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 draft.

One sect, Florio believes, wants to trade down, and the other wants a quarterback at No. 1. [read more]

Could the Bucs pass on a quarterback (dear, God!) in the draft and turn to brittle Rams QB Sam Bradford?

The suggestion yesterday from the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, that the Bucs braintrust is split over trading down or drafting Jameis Winston nearly sent Joe into a bottle-nursing, fetal-curling, deep, dark depression.

Just thinking the Bucs would pass on two potential franchise quarterbacks again this spring made Joe nearly nauseous.

Combined with passing on four potential signal-callers last year, when that is clearly the biggest hole on the roster, well, that would be simply irresponsible. [read more]

It’s February, but the “JoeBucsFan Hour” with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, is still in midseason form.

There were a few screaming matches this evening. [read more]

Evan Dietrich-Smith was in the center of an unsolved mystery

In many ways, Tampa Bay’s 2014 season was more bizarre than the MRSA-infected, quarterback-gone-mental, Fire-Schiano-billboards campaign of 2013.

There were plenty of real Bucs mysteries last year, and Joe’s revisiting the most interesting of the bunch. [read more]

Is safety Hawk Goldson worth his salary?

Joe still shakes his head thinking about how Lovie Smith professed his love in training camp for twice-cut cornerback Mike Jenkins, despite fellow healthy corner Johnthan Banks clearly showing as much if not more skill.

Despite Jenkins missing virtually all of training camp and preseason to an injury, Lovie was adamant Jenkins would be his starter opposite Alterraun Verner. [read more]

Since the acid reflux-inducing 2014 season ended, Joe has been able to talk to several scouts and a few NFL front office types. Of course, Joe asked the question, in a roundabout way, the only question that matters to Bucs fans.

(No, not Rachel Watson or Tricia Cusmano.) [read more]

Bucs OC Dirk Koetter explains his three-point offensive philosophy.

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has only been on the job a handful of weeks. Naturally, being the insider multimedia maven Scott Smith is (hey, his office is inside One Buc Palace), he coerced Koetter to cough up insight into his offensive goals.

Koetter described his Holy Trinity of offensive football. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

One of the NFL’s biggest insider voices made a bold statement about the Buccaneers yesterday. [read more]

Stat nerds are big on Austin Seferian-Jenkins for 2015.

Though it is too early for a final grade on the 2014 draft, it sure seems a whole lot of shaky after the Albert Pujols home run of wide receiver Mike Evans.

That guy is another reason to draft Jameis Winston. Why waste years with turnover-prone Josh McCown? [read more]

The NFL’s hottest and most controversial free agent, defensive end Greg Hardy, is a guy with pretty strong opinions.

One of them he shared with Joe last year. [read more]

A BSPNer believes LT Anthony Collins should be kept as a reserve lineman, which he was at Cincinnati.

After the Bucs select a quarterback to begin the 2015 NFL draft — if they don’t, they have major, serious ‘splainin’ to do — things get interesting.

The Bucs need help at safety. The Bucs need help at linebacker. Dear God, the Bucs need help at defensive end, and dudes walking around with a white cane can see what a colossal mess the offensive line is. [read more]

Joe stated previously that the Bucs could look to upgrade as many as nine starting positions. If Joe can see that, surely Bucs coach Lovie Smith can see that.

And how that translates into “on the verge,” Joe just can’t quite figure out without the help of Jack Daniels. [read more]